Ash_the_nerd

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

I’m really sorry

For the last few months, I have unintentionally ignored everyone here, and it was rude as fuck. I’m really sorry. To anyone wondering why, here is an explanation (it is not an excuse, I am fully aware that my shit is my shit to deal with and doesn’t justify being rude).

For the last ages I have been in a state of constant overwhelm both physically from health problems and mentally from just everything. Back in January I decided to take a break from social media to avoid Onyx storm spoilers, and I realised that it was a lot less stressful. I didn’t have to worry about how fast I responded to people, whether I phrased it right, whether I would get a load of hate for whatever I say. That little break from it made things a lot easier. So once Onyx storm came out, I started dreading interacting with people. All of the pressure to get everything right, make every interaction perfect so that nobody got pissed off at me. So I didn’t. I just stopped interacting with people. I eventually started using tumblr again, but the thought of writing a single sentence became way too much. So I didn’t. I did reblogs because if I wasn’t the one saying anything, then nobody would get annoyed at me. I kept getting tagged in different things, and I kept telling myself that I would get to them when I felt up to it, but that time never came and everyone stopped, because everyone realised that I wasn’t responding. And then that guilt that everyone realised that I was basically ignoring all of yous (and the realisation from myself that I was ignoring everyone) made the thought of writing anything even more unbearable.

So that’s why I haven’t responded to or interacted with anyone since the start of the year. It was rude and entirely my own fault. If any of yous are pissed off at me for it (and I’m not surprised if yous are), I understand. Yous kept reaching out and I kept on going with the radio silence, and then started reblogging random ass shit without any explanation or even recognition that yous had tried to keep up friendships. So, I’m sorry, I’ve been a shite moot. I don’t know what else to say in this and if I even start to check it for typos I will probably get overwhelmed over how this will be interpreted and end up deleting it, so once again. Sorry.

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nacreousor
theaawrites

Thinking about the scene where Mel picks Becca up and how she is the only character we see out of proximity of the hospital. The writers really wanted us to see that, on top of the shift from hell, the realities of Mel being Becca’s carer, and the fact that she does not get to stop and rest the same way the others do. And she has no one else, personally, to share the load. The comment she made earlier about not needing much sleep and having a high metabolism? Oh, baby none of this is sustainable.

nacreousor
nacreousor

Frank Langdon is a high functioning addict and pretty damn adept at what he's doing as long as everything is going 100% his way.

He needs people on his side that see him as a good guy. He needs to see himself as a good guy.

He wears a handmade bracelet that his kid made him to work - brightly coloured with his sleeves rolled up.

He sits with David after a traumatic event and tells him that Robby was the best man for the job - within Robby's sight line.

He wants to get his four year old the puppy he's been begging for - for his wife to deal with whilst raising both his kids as he's out of the house for 12 hour shifts.

When he gets caught, he says c'mon Robby, remember how I helped my mother move all by myself?

He's taking risks with his addiction, and he's getting cagey and paranoid about it when we meet him. He's jumping at everything as the season opens. He knows people will see him differently if they find out and he knows his career is at stake.

But he's still a good guy - as long as people believe this, they're all his character witnesses.

Enter new residents and interns, and as luck will have it, he gets paired with a friendly, bubbly, eager to learn, genuinely happy to be here resident. Ain't that swell. Her desire to trust and build relationships with people that is the perfect canvas for Langdon to paint the best version of himself.

So he's charming, he's kind to her, he gets to show off a little because he is a damn good doctor, and it FEELS damn good to be observed as such, especially by someone fresh who hasn't also clued in to the fact that he's an asshole too.

He works his shift building up a mentor/student relationship with her. He's not doing this out of the kindness of his heart or because he likes her; Melissa King is a convenient part of Frank Langdon's ongoing plan of manipulation. Her competence means that none of his agitated snapping gets aimed her way (yet).

That's because he's reserving all that for Trinity Santos - the more jaded and less naive med student who recognizes how manipulative men behave. After all, it's a lot easier to never have to see an abrasive recent grad he's not able to intimidate after one day than it might be to never see a second year resident with experience again. He's playing the whole field here, because in his mind, everyone is on to him already.

(and best believe he would have thrown Mel under the bus and dismissed and gaslit her too if she had been the one to piece his little secret together)

nacreousor

Anonymous asked:

your Santos post about everything she had to endure and then choosing to give Whitaker a place to live because he hasn't been threatening to her is going to make me cry. i can't wait to see how their dynamic will have change in s2.

(also i may need a scene where he tries to defend her from a patient coming a little too strongly at her. he fails because, well, he's really not made to fight, and she's totally able to defend herself after his attempt. but i need her to see him try for her. that's her little pathetic white man who is turning into a best friend without her knowing how that's even happening)

nacreousor answered:

AAAAA thank you for screaming alongside me! I’m obsessed with them both on their own so together I’m just a fucking wreckkk. Roommates era let’s gooo!

I fully support a whumpy defensive scene!!!!! BUT I will defend Whitaker’s capabilities a little - we see him doing patient transfers with people a head taller than him, so his core strength is definitely accounted for. He’s also running around the hospital with a cooler full of blood bags without any discernible effort, and that’s got to be at least 40 lbs that he’s swinging around. Farm work builds physical resilience too; he’s got more torque and scrappiness than he’s getting credit for. Plus the three older brothers torturing him growing up deal - you can’t convince me Whitaker can’t handle getting roughed up.

I think between him and Santos being a tough nut and former athlete (not to mention valedictorian of the school of hard knocks), they’d be a pretty good team of dealing with a common adversary.

mollypaup
mollypaup

im still losing it over the "how did high schoolers write 600 word essays before chatgpt" post. 600 words. that is nothing. that is so few words what do you mean you can't write 600 words. 600 words. this post right here is 45 words.

ashthenerd

That’s literally a page!!! It is ONE PAGE!!! In the leaving cert you are expected to spurt out several 6 pages essays in about 20 minutes each for both English and history. 600 words is a geography essay. That is fifteen pieces of information including the name of a volcano. 600 words is answering a reading comprehension as Gaeilge. 600 words is writing a little diary entry or a mini email in French for your junior cert. 600 words is not hard. I have written five times as much while bradycardic, five minutes from fainting, unable to hold a pen and wedging it into my finger splints, barely able to see what I was writing. 600 pages is a piece of piss, you do not need AI for that, you can literally rephrase the end of chapter summary if you are that unable or unwilling to put in the work. Claiming that 600 words is unreasonable is ridiculous.

justinaburns
justinaburns

The Pitt

What the actors said about Kingdon (Frank Langdon and Melissa “Mel” King)

Patrick Ball who plays Frank Langdon said in an interview he sees Mel as his gay sister

Taylor Dearden who plays Melissa “Mel” King said this:

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I wouldn’t mind the ship at all, but I do personally want Frank to continue to be married to and with his wife Abby.

There’s so many shows out there where coworkers fall in love and rarely do we see just an attractive male coworker and a female coworker be just friends without being shipped. I’d like for Frank and Mel to become Alex Karev and Meredith Grey, but different obviously.

What I want to see in the next season is: still just set and focusing in the hospital (no intrusion in their personal lives, only get details from what is said), Frank and Trinity Santos to become good friends (obviously not gonna happen right away), to see the banter between Langdon and Garcia, and Langdon and Collins, to see Frank and Robby become friends again (hated their break up, but also was needed and that scene was 😚👌 perfectly done and perfectly acted)… I’m sure I’m missing so much more, but that’s just stuff off of the top of my head right now.

techiekittie
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